This biography gives a picture of the life of May Gibbs, from whose imagination emerged the mythology and the magic of the gumnut babies Snugglepot and Cuddlepie. It traces her life, from her birth into the comfortable British middle class, through her family's struggles as farmers in the harsh Australian Outback, to a cultured adolescence in Perth, art schools in England and, ultimately, success and its demands. Maureen Walsh lets May speak for herself with snatches of interviews, notes from sketchbooks, letters and autobiographical jottings, all of which reveal the hopes, ideas, concerns and the impish wit of this artist and author.
- ISBN10 0207177392
- ISBN13 9780207177392
- Publish Date 1 August 1994
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 17 October 2003
- Publish Country AU
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
- Imprint Angus & Robertson Childrens
- Edition Paperback ed.
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 192
- Language English